US index futures struggled for direction as investors digested the latest hawkish noises from the Federal Reserve amid mounting signs of a global economic slowdown.
Futures on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 fluctuated between modest gains and losses, with markets on edge ahead of the Jackson Hole central bankers’ retreat later this week. The 10-year Treasury yield held above 3 per cent and the dollar was steady.
“Globally we haven’t seen a deceleration like this that has been so synchronized in many decades,” Frances Stacy, director of strategy at Optimal Capital Advisors LLC, said on Bloomberg Television. “I don’t want to be directional” in picking trades, she added. The Fed “is probably going to use this weekend to reiterate the fact that rates have more room to climb because they really want to bring inflation down,” Kelvin Tay, Asia-Pacific chief investment officer at UBS Global Wealth Management, said on Bloomberg Television.
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